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University Announces Innovative Research-To-Market Entity that Advances Global Health Solutions
Feb. 8, 2007
Colorado State University today unveiled MicroRX, a first-of-its-kind enterprise to speed the transition of life-saving research on infectious diseases from the academic world into the global marketplace.
MicroRX is just the first of the university’s "Superclusters" – alliances of academic researchers, economists and business experts designed to encourage collaboration and bridge the vastly different worlds of business and academia. Colorado State today also announced its Superclusters acceleration research-to-market model, which the university began developing in 2004.
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Larry Edward Penley
President, Colorado State
- What is a Supercluster?
- Improving region’s economic prosperity
- The innovative Supercluster structure
Tony Frank
Provost and senior vice president, Colorado State
Barry Beaty
Chief scientific officer, MicroRx
Mark Wdowik
Chief executive officer, CSU Ventures
Bill Farland
Vice president for Research, Colorado State
Kathleen Henry
President and chief executive officer, Colorado State University Research Foundation
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Mosquitoes are reared in the Colorado State University Arthropod-Bourne Infectious Disease Laboratory insectary.
Mosquitoes are reared in the Colorado State University Arthropod-Bourne Infectious Disease Laboratory insectary.
Mosquitoes are reared in the Colorado State University Arthropod-Bourne Infectious Disease Laboratory insectary.
Mosquitoes are reared in the Colorado State University Arthropod-Bourne Infectious Disease Laboratory insectary.
Adult mosquitoes are released from a cup of larvae and pupae in the Colorado State University Arthropod-Bourne Infectious Disease Laboratory insectary.
Adult mosquitoes are released from a cup of larvae and pupae in the Colorado State University Arthropod-Bourne Infectious Disease Laboratory insectary.
Colorado State University Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology professor and University Distinguished Professor Barry Beaty discusses the influence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in infectious disease transmission with graduate students Eric Beck and Sara Reese and research associate Saul Lozano at the Center for Environmental Toxicology and Technology.
